Last year, we posted "I'm A Pretty Showboy," a single from the buzzy Brighton band Opus Kink. Opus Kink make brooding, strutting post-punk with accents of jazz and country. They've got two horn players and a frontman who knows how to smolder, and they remind me a bit of Morphine, if Morphine were both British and hyperactive, which means they don't actually remind me that much of Morphine. Opus Kink have been around for a few years and released a handful of EPs, and they've just announced plans to drop their full-length debut this summer. It's titled The Sweet Goodbye, which is a funny thing to call your first album.
Opus Kink recorded The Sweet Goodbye with Baxter Dury/Horrors producer Craig Silvey, who also mixed it. "I'm A Pretty Showboy" is on the album, and so is the viciously sleek new single "Come Over, Do Me Wrong." Bandleader Angus Rogers says, "Half of any good thing is its proximity to its end; half of any good thing is the reason it cannot be yours. 'Come Over, Do Me Wrong' is a song about the hallucinogenic qualities of a doomed love affair and its toxic allure, the mad philosophical leap of 'I don’t care what you do as long as you do it to me.'"
Maisy Banks directed the black-and-white video for "Come Over, Do Me Wrong." Check out that clip and the tracklist for The Sweet Goodbye below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "Come Over, Do Me Wrong"
02 "Will It Come For You?"
03 "I'm A Pretty Showboy"
04 "The Sweet Goodbye"
05 "Peckham Nocturne"
06 "I Have To Shine My Sunday Shoes"
07 "The Head Tree" (Feat. The New Eves)
08 "448C (The Colour of Love)"
09 "Crucify!"
10 "Oh, Irony"
The Sweet Goodbye is out 7/31 on So Recordings. Pre-order it here.
